Scott v. Scott
Ohio Supreme Court
Divorce. Cause, adultery with one Danforth, and wilful absence, It appeared the parties were married five years since in Guernsey, and lived more than a year together. She had a full grown child about five months after the marriage. She left her husband, and went to live at Danforth’s, where she continued some time. What occasioned the separation is not explained; nor does it appear that he went for her to return, or that she refused to return.
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Divorce. Cause, adultery with one Danforth, and wilful absence, It appeared the parties were married five years since in Guernsey, and lived more than a year together. She had a full grown child about five months after the marriage. She left her husband, and went to live at Danforth’s, where she continued some time. What occasioned the separation is not explained; nor does it appear that he went for her to return, or that she refused to return. There is proof, that while living at Danforth’s, in a cabin with one room and two beds, Danforth, with his wife and child, and Mrs, Scott, lay…
1Opinion of the Court
BY THE COURT.
The proof of the defendant’s general reputation would not conduce to make out adultery in the case of the lying on the bed with Danforth, and no other facts to strengthen the presumption are offered, even if such evidence was admissible for that •^purpose. It can hardly be supposed that Danforth com- [470 mitted adultery with this woman, while his wife and child were lying *482beside Mm. As to the child, it may be the petitioner’s; they lived within a few mile.s of each other, and may-have had intercourse; there should be some proof more than we have, that he did not see her. The…
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